Singular.live and Reality Check Systems (RCS) have collaborated with QTV to enrich the Scottish Professional Football League’s (SPFL) matchday graphics with enhanced live Stats Perform match data. Scottish production house QTV, the SPFL’s outside broadcast production partner, has been working with Singular.live and RCS since 2020 but wanted to elevate matchday graphics through more sophisticated data […] More
Technology rarely makes a difference all on its own. It usually requires someone, or a range of people, to recognise the potential, adapt it and deploy it as a tool. This was especially true with the Sky Virtual Production Suite (Sky VPS), which represents a paradigm shift in the way that Sky Sports approaches some […] More
Émilie Montané, the former director of media and production at the Fédération Française de Tennis, has joined L’Équipe Group as new strategy and development director. As of Monday 3 January 2022, Montané will be reporting to Laurent Prud’homme, CEO of the group. She will also be a member of the executive committee. Montané will be […] More
Robert Szabo-Rowe, senior vice president, engineering & product management at The Switch, talks remote and cloud-based live sports production and shares his advice for broadcasters considering the move to IP. The Sport Production & Technology Summit, including the Sports TV Awards, took place on 28 October 2021 at Stamford Bridge. More
SVG Europe’s Jo Ruddock speaks to John Mailhot, CTO networking and infrastructure at Imagine Communications, about how UHD and HDR are key to today’s sports production environments. The Sport Production & Technology Summit, including the Sports TV Awards, took place on 28 October 2021 at Stamford Bridge. More
In conversation with SVG Europe’s Jo Ruddock, Julian Fernández-Campón, chief technology officer at Tedial, discusses the challenges facing the live sports production sector and how these are being addressed. The Sport Production & Technology Summit, including the Sports TV Awards, took place on 28 October 2021 at Stamford Bridge. More
Sky Deutschland recently conducted two trials of live sports broadcasting using 5G technology, furthering its ambitions to make more efficient broadcasts as well as open up new in-stadium revenue streams. As part of Sky Sport’s 5G activities, it implemented two successful 5G cases. On 6 November with Vodafone at the Bundesliga Match of the Week, […] More
In the second part of our review of the Sky Sport Summit Italy 2021, we look at what panellists at the virtual conference thought about topical issues including technology and storytelling, and fan engagement, and we hear about Sky’s commitment to Carbon Zero. You can read part 1 of the review, which looked at trends […] More
BT Sport has premiered a thought-provoking short film created by students from Newham Sixth Form College, as BT Sport Takeover returned on 28 November on BT Sport 1. The film is the result of a BT Sport community initiative which provides local students, with no prior TV experience, access to an eight-week course to learn […] More
Eleven Italy has agreed a partnership with the International Basketball Federation (FIBA) to deliver live coverage of FIBA’s international calendar of events until 2025. The deal will see Eleven stream over 1,000 games in total, including every match from the FIBA Women’s Basketball World Cup 2022, the FIBA Basketball World Cup 2023, and the men’s […] More
